Thai navy joins pirate patrol
 

Thailands sends two ships to the Gulf of Aden to combat pirates:

http://media.smh.com.au/national/sel...l?from=newsbox

Good,they can never be too many
 

BTW,have Australia presence there :hmmm:

Not to my knowledge.

But there are resources
 

matter of time!

Oh we've been there done that but AFAIK no current deployments, also no Aussie shipping has been targeted so far so there's been less impetus for us to send ships over.

Yes it sounds logical,
 

but it is well Traffic part of the West Coast, you never know if the pirates are moving

The West Coast is patrolled, mostly looking for asylum seekers though.

Where are they from,when it comes to asylum,
 

:hmmm:

Yes. For a while now.

I was wrong then. Having a look HMAS Melbourne is over there now.

http://www.navy.gov.au/Melbourne%E2%...ajor_Milestone

I knew it wouldn't be a Collins class :DL

we'd be lucky to get enough crew to get one to patrol Sydney Harbour.:damn:

Wonder if one of the ships they are sending is that Carrier of theirs?

Although the ship in the video was a Cannon class DE... yea a D fraking E...
The other was a Naresuan class Frigate I think...

Tell them someone dropped a beer down there...

HMAS Melbourne
 

She looking very nice :up:

http://imgur.com/yIxDS.jpg

Commanding Officer Commander Michael John Harris
Pennant FFG 05
Class Adelaide Class
Based Sydney
Launched 5 May 1989
Commissioned 15 February 1992
Displacement 4200 tonnes4,200,000 kg
4.2e+9 g
9,259,412.4 lb
148,150,640.4 oz
Length 138.1 metres13,810 cm
0.138 km
0.0858 mi
453.084 ft
5,437.008 in
Beam 14.3 metres1,430 cm
0.0143 km
0.00889 mi
46.916 ft
562.992 in
Armament

* 76mm Rapid Fire Gun
* Harpoon Anti-ship Missiles
* SM2 Surface-to-Air Missiles
* Evolved Sea Sparrow Surface-to-Air Missiles
* Mk 41 Vertical Launch System
* Mk 13 Missile Launcher
* Phalanx Close-in Weapons System
* Nulka, Pirate, Seagnat and Lescut decoy systems
* 2 Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes
* Mk 46 torpedoes

Aircraft

* Up to two Seahawk helicopters

Main Machinery

* Two General Electric LM2500 gas turbines driving a single controllable pitch propeller

Speed 30 knots15.433 m/s
55.56 km/h
0.0154 km/s
3,038.059 ft/min
50.634 ft/s
Company 221

I was thinking something along those lines :DL